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Article #7685Re: Filemaker Pro stupidity
From: William Joseph Marriott
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1991 20:26
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1991 20:26
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macq@miguel.llnl.gov (Don MacQueen) writes: > The latest on my list of things Claris broke when they went from > Filemaker II to Filemaker Pro: > > A database is sorted. You find a subset of the records. The found > subset is NOT, I repeat NOT NOT NOT sorted in the original order. FileMaker has *never* retained the sorted order of records after a Find. This is largely because FileMaker (all versions) is disk-based. When you perform a sort, the "ID Numbers" of the records are re-arranged, not the actual records. Thus, FileMaker uses the sorted "ID Number" list when displaying records. This is because re-arranging the actual records on your disk would take a long time. When you do a Find, the list of record ID numbers changes, and thus another sort is required to put them in order again. -Bill Marriott lou@cup.portal.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!Lou From: Lou@cup.portal.com (William Joseph Marriott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Filemaker Pro stupidity Message-ID: <39957@cup.portal.com> Date: 8 Mar 91 20:26:53 GMT References: <92710@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 19